Rant: Don't want Unicode just give me a working IDE

"John" <NoSpam@NoSpam.com> wrote in message
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> +1

> And unfortunately D2007 is the worst delphi they have done, D7 is the
> best.

You didn't try D2005 then?

CB

no nor D2006..D2007 is supposed to be more stable than D2005 so I don't
imagine ... :-))

"John" <NoSpam@NoSpam.com> wrote in message
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>
> D2007 is too slow , too unstable, and after a few hours of working it suck
> more than one Gb of RAM... Using a .Net IDE was not the best idea they
> had.
>
> please come back to Win32 IDE...

The IDE is win32 with a few .NET elements. Some have even managed to remove
..NET completely from a computer and still run D2007.

John wrote:

> D2007 is too slow , too unstable, and after a few hours of working it
> suck more than one Gb of RAM... Using a .Net IDE was not the best
> idea they had.

Just to add a different data point.

I use Delphi 2007 all day every day, sometimes leaving the IDE open for
days at a time (on VMs with 1GB RAM), and I haven't seen anything like
the problems you describe.

It isn't flawless, but in my opinion, Delphi 2007 is the best Delphi
IDE to date, and I have great expectations for Delphi 2009.

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Regards,
Bruce McGee
Glooscap Software

"Charles B" <c@b.a> wrote in message
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> "John" <NoSpam@NoSpam.com> wrote in message
> news:489aa512$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
>> +1
>
>> And unfortunately D2007 is the worst delphi they have done, D7 is the
>> best.
>
> You didn't try D2005 then?

Or D4 (worst version ever)

krf

Chris wrote:

> Do you use a ''non english'' version of Vista?

I notice that he's posting from Turkey. The default collation on a
Turkish machine tends to break a software left and right, because it
uses different rules for capitalizing the letter 'i' than every other
language on earth which includes that letter. I recently helped the
IntraWeb folks fix a similar issue. In this case, the IntraWeb code
contained a resource name in lowercase. When you pass that to the OS,
Windows will uppercase the resource name using the default collation.
If this includes the letter 'i', the code will probably break on a
Turkish machine. The correct solution here is to always specify
resource names in uppercase. This is a pretty insidious bug, because it
won't show up in any locale other than Turkey.

So, if you have a computer set to the Turkish locale, and you find
weird bugs like this in a piece of software, a useful test is to change
the locale to en-us. If that fixes the problem, you have a good defect
case that you can report in QC.

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>
> D2007 is too slow , too unstable, and after a few hours of working it suck
> more than one Gb of RAM... Using a .Net IDE was not the best idea they
> had.
>
> please come back to Win32 IDE...

I preffer a Win32 IDE too , but I have the D2007 IDE working for days and
days and two or three times in a month I reboot the computer usually without
problems. And the only slow element of the IDE is the "unhelp" system and
the startup time (with a lot of thirty party components).

Regards,

Francis

John wrote:

> And unfortunately D2007 is the worst delphi they have done

/snort

Bruce McGee wrote:

> I use Delphi 2007 all day every day, sometimes leaving the IDE open
> for days at a time (on VMs with 1GB RAM), and I haven't seen anything
> like the problems you describe.

We've only moved a few of our projects from D5 to D2007, and so I only
run D2007 a few hours at a time. But it has been pretty much problem
free for me as well.

Francisco Ruiz wrote:

> I preffer a Win32 IDE too

Delphi 2007 is a Win32 application. It merely uses the .Net framework
for certain functionality, much like it uses GDI32.DLL and other
Windows DLLs.

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Nick Hodges
Delphi Product Manager - Embarcadero
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